Paul Goyette wrote:
>
>Has anyone got an Exabyte 8mm tape drive working under -current? I've
>got one that panics as soon as the driver tries to execute
>st_mode_select().
>
>I'm guessing that there's some special quirkdata that needs to be set for
>this beast, (the Exabyte section of quirkdata in st.c is disabled by an
>#if 0 ... #endif) but I don't know the details.
>
>Also, can anyone enlighten me on the differences between rst0, erst0,
>nrst0, and enrst0? Thanks.
>
What kind of tape drive? I have an 8500 and an 8500c working, although
an IBM-modified 8505 doesn't work. Of course, I haven't found an
IBM-modified anything that works correctly on a non-IBM operating system,
which is a good reason to avoid them like the plague, as far as I'm
concerned.
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